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Day 2:
Woke up a bit late due to fatigue from driving but cooked a quick breakfast with tea and headed out to Arches NP for the quickest tour of the park. Drove all the way up and out via Salt Valley Road since we had a deadline to get into Idaho Springs to meet Josh for the bumper transaction. So I let the girlfriend drive the fireroad out and let her rip. Pretty fun letting the rear end slip out. Anyways we cross the Utah/Colorado border and took obligatory pictures. Passing Vail and all the other resort towns, we finally meet Josh in Idaho Springs about two hours late. We totally forgot to account for the one hour difference. The itinerary I made for this trip went out the window. I salvaged what I could but we stuck to it as best we could. That's the fun of these trips. Anyways, I originally booked a hotel in Boulder for this night but the girlfriend made a wise comment on how we could save $200 and camp instead! Hell, okay! That's what I'm talking about. This made my afternoon, but it would soon be cut short. We drive up the back road to Arapaho NF and look for campsites along the route since there were a handful. Unfortunately almost all the sites were closed due to snow. It wasn't that high but the NF Rangers deemed it impassable. So we continued and found the Reverend Campground in the Golden Gate Canyon SP around 7:00pm. Barely anyone there. For a large facilitated and electrical campsite, there were only 5 campgrounds occupied including us. Temps dropped below 30degrees. This was our first camp in the cold weather. And we weren't as prepared as we should/could have been. Too much moisture in the air took us quite sometime to get the fire going. We cooked up some ramen and attempted to sleep in this frigid weather. An interesting night.
Campsite along the Colorado River south of Arches NP.
Moab sign pose
Moab behind us now
Arches NP entrance!
Somewhere in those cold mountains would have been Oohwah Campground. Too cold.
A great drive for such a short route!
One of the numerous arches in the park
Speed it up honey!
At the border of Arches NP. Heading back to the highway
At the Colorado border. I'll save the pose for myself.
Saw these badboys being hauled somewhere near Vail
Beautiful resort and mountain towns
Eisenhower and Johnson Tunnels
After meeting Josh and bumper in the trunk, we finally made it to the outskirts of Denver.
Sign was fenced off so we couldn't pose on this one. Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
The road to our campsite
It's so damn cold. Fingers and toes were about to fall off
Woke up a bit late due to fatigue from driving but cooked a quick breakfast with tea and headed out to Arches NP for the quickest tour of the park. Drove all the way up and out via Salt Valley Road since we had a deadline to get into Idaho Springs to meet Josh for the bumper transaction. So I let the girlfriend drive the fireroad out and let her rip. Pretty fun letting the rear end slip out. Anyways we cross the Utah/Colorado border and took obligatory pictures. Passing Vail and all the other resort towns, we finally meet Josh in Idaho Springs about two hours late. We totally forgot to account for the one hour difference. The itinerary I made for this trip went out the window. I salvaged what I could but we stuck to it as best we could. That's the fun of these trips. Anyways, I originally booked a hotel in Boulder for this night but the girlfriend made a wise comment on how we could save $200 and camp instead! Hell, okay! That's what I'm talking about. This made my afternoon, but it would soon be cut short. We drive up the back road to Arapaho NF and look for campsites along the route since there were a handful. Unfortunately almost all the sites were closed due to snow. It wasn't that high but the NF Rangers deemed it impassable. So we continued and found the Reverend Campground in the Golden Gate Canyon SP around 7:00pm. Barely anyone there. For a large facilitated and electrical campsite, there were only 5 campgrounds occupied including us. Temps dropped below 30degrees. This was our first camp in the cold weather. And we weren't as prepared as we should/could have been. Too much moisture in the air took us quite sometime to get the fire going. We cooked up some ramen and attempted to sleep in this frigid weather. An interesting night.
Campsite along the Colorado River south of Arches NP.
Moab sign pose
Moab behind us now
Arches NP entrance!
Somewhere in those cold mountains would have been Oohwah Campground. Too cold.
A great drive for such a short route!
One of the numerous arches in the park
Speed it up honey!
At the border of Arches NP. Heading back to the highway
At the Colorado border. I'll save the pose for myself.
Saw these badboys being hauled somewhere near Vail
Beautiful resort and mountain towns
Eisenhower and Johnson Tunnels
After meeting Josh and bumper in the trunk, we finally made it to the outskirts of Denver.
Sign was fenced off so we couldn't pose on this one. Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
The road to our campsite
It's so damn cold. Fingers and toes were about to fall off
